Jim Cocking B.Sc. Grad.Dip.
Senior Biologist
jim.cocking@bennelongia.com.au
Jim Cocking has a B.Sc. and Graduate Diploma from Curtin University and worked for the Department of Environment and Conservation from 1994 to 2007. Jim has extensive experience sampling and identifying subterranean fauna in WA as well as undertaking river assessment and identifying macroinvertebrates, especially amphipods. His experience includes:
- Undertaking field survey throughout WA on mining leases and pastoral properties
- Profiling water chemistry of bores and taking footage of stygofauna with downhole video
- Building and running AusRivAs models
- Macroinvertebrate and subterranean identification, with particular experience in amphipods
- GIS analysis and mapping